Author Archives: André Gonçalves

Cannon Line to Mic Level Cable
Plug your Line Level Sources ( audio mixer, audio recorder, computer, ipod or anything that has phones output… ) straight into the Mic Input of the Cannon 550D DSLR Camera.
Having bought a Cannon 550D one of the purposes i got it for was to be able to make some good [...]

Description
Oscillator Bank v.1
Soundscape & Rhythm Generator
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oscillator-bank
This App features a 10 channel mixer with 10 individuals digital sine waves.
Each Oscillator Channel has independent controls for frequency, binaural offset and panning.
Each of these channels also have a volume automation setting related to a LFO which speed can also be adjusted.
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Harmonic Series v.1
Soundscape & Rhythm Generator
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/harmonic-series
This App enables the creation of soundscapes based on the Harmonic Series Musical Principle.
Given one Dominant Frequency, 9 other frequencies are tuned to be the first 9 harmonics of the Dominant Frequency.
A 10 channel mixer is the main interface to adjust the independent volume of each frequency.
Each of these [...]

Description
Brain Tune v.1
Binaural Soundscape & Rhythm Generator
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brain-tune
Brain Tune is a “Pure” Digital Sine Wave generator. It makes use of the binaural principle to generate binaural beats which frequency can be set to a value between 0hz and 30hz (the Brain Waves range)
Twelve sine waves are used, 6 for the Left Output and 6 for [...]

I’ve been wanting to get into apple’s Magic Trackpad since they announce it, i got it as it came out but at start was a bit disapointing.
Followed the iFixIt Teardown, and when i saw the UPTX and UPRX words i was excited with the possibility of getting inside quickly, soldered some wires to the solder [...]

Been silent, working very intensively in something totally different and new:
an Arduino Based Digital to Analog to Digital Modular System for Analog Synthesizers
picture and link below
Also updated the Shields pages adding schematics and board files in Eagle format
the current ADDAC System from Left to Right:
Nunchuck Input ——— ADDAC006
Gate Inputs ——- ADDAC004
Manual Inputs —– ADDAC003
CV Inputs [...]

For the Contemporary Music Timeline i’ve been making, i thought of creating hyperlinks for all the data inserted, because this would be an exhausting process to be done in acrobat, i started searching for ways to do this straight from Processing, i ended up finding this page from Toxi:
http://toxi.co.uk/blog/2007/08/creating-weblinks-in-pdf-with-itext.htm
It seemed exactly what i wanted, but [...]

Here’s an arduino library to calculate sunrise and sunset times based on date and latitude / longitude, i didn’t made the library, i took it from this website that doesn’t seem to work anymore: http://www.swfltek.com/arduino/sunrise
I’d like to give credit to the one who wrote it but i couldn’t find a creator name or contact anywhere!
i [...]

Starting next week, i’ll be teaching experimental/improvised music aesthetics in an Audio Production Course at Restart (a professional school here in Lisbon), for that matter i wanted to have a timeline that could give an overall view of composers as well as labels and technological advances that made possible for some things to happen as [...]